Check Please!

Jan 21 2025 15 ep. 55 mins 1
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Check Please! is a podcast by two avid cooks and voracious diners with perfect taste where we chat about food, life and whatever we want. Pull up a seat at our table, this one's on us.

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Check Please! #15 Trends, 2025 Predictions & a Live Tarot Reading

Jan 21 2025 73 mins  
Is it too late to say happy New Year?We’re back with a new episode on all things trendy — bemoaning what’s out and predicting what’s in for 2025, featuring the expert opinions of our friends Daniel Emilio Soares, the mind behind NYC’s chicest party spreads and founder of Alimentari Flaneur, Savannah Eden Bradley, one of fashion Twitter’s most brilliant minds and editor-

Check Please! #14 Holidays, Canceled Christmas Songs & A Pimento Cheese Ball with a Certain Mystique

Dec 17 2024 62 mins  
Seasons greetings!We’re back with a new episode, and we’re chatting about holiday traditions, getting passive aggressive with your family, how to be good at gifting and the single greatest Christmas song of all time. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bellacastillo.substack.com/subscribe

Check Please! #13 Fantasy, Tubby Custard and Haruki Murakami's Ear Fetish

Nov 26 2024 64 mins  
Welcome back to Check Please!In this fantasy-themed episode, we chat about some of our earliest food memories — the fictional dishes we read about and watched on TV. We name some of very real dishes that feel made up, and dish on the YA fiction we were obsessed with in adolescence. Josh shares some of his favorite video game soundtracks, Bella introduces you to an independent per

Check Please! #12 Autumn, Thanksgiving Hot Takes & Yo La Tengo Playing My Wedding (Nov. 12, 2024)

Nov 12 2024 50 mins  
We are so back.And the seasons have changed since we last chatted. In this episode, we discuss all things autumn. We debate which apples are the best apples and whether pumpkin is under, over or correctly rated. We share our Thanksgiving takes and traditions, fight about whether Yo La Tengo is girl music or not, and talk about the time Josh catered a party that had gold-leaf covere

Check Please! #11 Desire, Sexy Fruit & Suburban Perversion (Oct. 14, 2024)

Oct 15 2024 55 mins  
In this week’s episode of Check Please! we chat about which foods have a certain sexy quality and whether aphrodisiacs are real or fake. We meditate on desire in all it’s forms, from the kind of yielding love it takes to make long term relationships work to the depths of depravity it can lead us to, as depicted in movies like Happiness (1998), Little Children (2006), and Americ

Check Please! #10 Holiness, Mormon Casserole, & a Chat with Audrey (@foldyrhands) Robinovitz (Oct. 8, 2024)

Oct 08 2024 81 mins  
It’s a beautiful Tuesday to assess your relationship with god!The theme for this episode of Check Please! was the word “holy,” and it sparked memories of cocktail weenies in coulis, cornflake casserole and the time my dad broke a $50 in the offering basket. It led us to revisit Bible verses featuring culinary anomalies, and analyze movies like First Reformed (2017) and Mermai

Check Please! #9 Opulence, Caviar Tasting & Ranking The Real Housewives (Oct. 1, 2024)

Oct 01 2024 61 mins  
Welcome to another week of Check Please!In today’s episode on opulence, we speed rank (almost) every Real Housewife, and discuss examples of culinary luxuries throughout history, including everything from Pâté en Croûte to porpoise. We examined movies with monied overtones like Marie Antoinette (2006) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999), and had the opportunity to taste test and compare

Check Please! #8 Yearning, Brokeback Mountain & Queer Lit (Sept. 24, 2024)

Sep 24 2024 69 mins  
In this episode on yearning, I open up about the deep anguish in my heart caused by the distance between me and my favorite slutty fast-food Mexican restaurant, Josh gets an education in Mitski lyrics, and we muse about why the gays are simply doing yearning better.We discuss Brokeback Mountain (2005), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), and reflect on excerpts from Ocean Vuong’s

Check Please! #7 - Malaise, Raw Milk & a Chat with Tao Lin (Sept. 10, 2024)

Sep 10 2024 101 mins  
The topic for this episode of Check Please! is malaise.ma·laise/məˈlāz,məˈlez/noun* a general feeling of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult to identify.We chat about the things we like to eat when we feel like sickly Victorian orphans, revisit my freaky alternative health childhood, analyze the plot of Safe (1995) starring Julianne Moore, and in

Check Please! #6 - Nostalgia, Onion Ring Towers and Disney Adults (Derogatory) (Sept. 3, 2024)

Sep 03 2024 67 mins  
Welcome back to Check Please! The word of the day is: nostalgia.We went to the mall to get an Auntie Anne’s soft pretzel and inhale the enthralling scent of Abercrombie & Fitch Fierce in the name of research. We talked about when curling your hair and going to Sprinkles Cupcakes was the most en vogue thing to do in middle school on your birthday. We made playlists harkening back